Notices by Ika Makimaki (pezmico@mastodon.nz), page 9

@goatsarah my suggestion, in cities particularly, is to own no car at all.

Potentially unpopular opinion and no offence meant to anyone.

But I do think that buying a new petrol powered car in the year 2023, with all the environmental chaos currently unfolding, is a form of climate denial.

One might not be an outright denier in thoughts and words, but actions speak volumes.

Hello toot friends, I bring #antiLawn memes.
I'm hoping to radicalise you all against the boring monoculture lawn and turn you into biodiversity defenders.

Quick reminder that at least a decent chunk of the forests *still burning* in Canada were part of the "offsets" countries and companies pay for as credits in Carbon Trading schemes meant for them to keep polluting guilt-free.

The "offsets" are now in the atmosphere heating the planet. As well as the original emissions.

Good stuff. /s

That's part of why Emissions Trading Schemes are little more than fancy accounting and should never be accepted as Climate Action.

#BlahBlahBlah #ClimateCrisis

We are now in the middle of "Oops"

Here's one weird trick that billionaires don't want you to know:
Join your union.

#GeneralStrike #WGAStrong #WGASTRIKE #UnionStrong #SAGAFTRAstrong #SAGAFTRA

What annoys me most about the phrase "This is the New Normal" is that it implies that we just have to accept it and there's nothing we can do about it.

Being sick all the time is Not Normal.

The oceans boiling and the forests burning down while the cities either flood or wither in droughts is Not Normal either.

A few assholes holding the vast majority of the wealth while the rest of us struggle to get by is definitely Not Normal.

And we should not accept any of it as Normal.
It is not.

I think my love for the #fediverse was cemented that time when Raspberry Pi brought a surveillance cop as a brand ambassador to do Influencer Shit™ on here and everyone dragged them for days.

#ACAB + #antiCapitalism = ❤️

To each their own, but the reason I'm staying away from bluesky is that I'm not super eager to jump in the next tech bro venture capitalist social platform. I am not convinced the people or ideas behind it are any better.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice...

Fediverse is imperfect, yes. But it's ethos feels a lot closer to mine. So I'm keen to give this a go and hope it flourishes.

That said, I might be very wrong. It has happened before.

The game for smart people remains:

Don't get infected.
If you do get infected, get infected as few times as possible, with as low a viral load as possible, while as vaccinated as possible.
Better vaccines and better air will come.
Hang in there.

(stolen from @YouAreLobbyLud@twitter.com)

#CovidIsNotOver

When you take a taxi in Tokyo, it's now pretty standard to have an air quality monitor inside.

The drivers all mask and there's plexiglass separating the driver and the passengers.

You may argue about the effectiveness of each of these measures, but it's clear that this is a society responding together and adapting to a new reality.

This is living with the virus: trying to mitigate it's harm. Instead of pretending it does not exist.

#CovidIsNotOver

Covid is still killing and disabling countless people everyday.
It is still a serious disease that damages your brain, vascular system, immune system and more.
The end of the Global Health Emergency won’t change anything for me or my whānau.
I will still mask, still keep myself and my family safe and keep fighting for what’s right.
Stay Safe 😷✊🏽

#CovidIsNotOver

@coin it's not irrational.
Any car can be deadly but smaller cars are less likely to kill pedestrians or cyclists. (speed x mass and all that; plus smaller blind zones)
There's a lot of data backing why bigger cars are more dangerous for anyone outside them.

https://youtu.be/jN7mSXMruEo

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2022/03/17/suvs-pickups-pedestrian-fatalities-rise/7075333001/

@runoutgroover This is extremely good too. At first I was worried about the lack of footpaths in narrow neighbourhood streets, but it works out really well.
Bikes, pedestrians of all ages and cars seem to be able to safely share the street and respect each other.

These streets are naturally low speed areas, I don't know if there's a formal limit but no one seems to drive over maybe 20k/h.

It works.

In Japan, family cars don't need to be gigantic intimidating murder machines.

I like it.

Every movement that has ever achieved any social progress has been, in its time, criticised for being disruptive, misguided or annoying to "ordinary people".
Then they succeed and their history is sanitised.

Suffragettes, civil rights, gay rights, labour struggles, anti apartheid. Pick one.
All of them were criticised for being too loud, too violent, for alienating the public.

The #ClimateCrisis is everyone's problem.
Your commute is disrupted for a day? Tough luck.
Fight for a better world.

"Blocking motorways is not the right way."
"Skipping school for a climate strike is not the right way."
"Throwing soup at a painting is not the right way."
"Blockading or defacing polluting businesses is not the right way."
"Interfering with the work of airports or oil rigs is not the right way."

Why not just accept that you just don't care enough to accept even the slightest inconvenience in the struggle for change?

Their demand is fair, simple, and correct: #RestorePassengerRail
Do it.

Another excellent #podcast from @TheWarOnCars about the #feminist city and how we should design our urban spaces with care, children and the invisible Labour of raising a child in the forefront.

A city that's safe and welcoming for children and those who care for them is a city that's safe and welcoming to everyone. #TheWarOnCars

https://pca.st/episode/bf14dc32-3754-4d6c-abf8-9c196724b611

It's always morally correct to humiliate, mock, bully, torment and/or ridicule any and all billionaires.

None of them are good. If they want our solidarity they need to stop being billionaires.

They can buy anything they want.
Except our respect.

Try this fun game.

Imagine you live a hundred years.
That's 36,500 days.
Imagine you get to spend 20,000 dollars a day, every single day.

Yup you're a newborn spending 20 k a day, stay with me.

You'd die a 100 years later and you would have spent 730,000,000. That's 730 million dollars.

You still would not be able to call yourself a billionaire.

Billionaires should not exist.